Ingrid Gantner, « Keïona de la House of Revlon, performance de voguing à la Fondation des Etats-Unis », Paris, 10 juin 2021.
Every edited dossier of an academic journal is a long time in the making and it is an organizing committee’s final reward to read the fruits of a vibrating conference, now available online.
The conference itself was delayed by the surprise of COVID in 2020, followed by continued restrictions in 2021. With the first lockdown, we pushed back our June 2020 conference to the Fall, which led to a stimulating collaboration with Université Paris Cité and the LARCA. Along with Emmanuelle Delanoë-Brun and Juliette Mélia, when tests were not yet widely available and masks were still scarce, we held a hybrid conference on “Queering Art” with only the speakers meeting in one room, followed by the online screening of Alexis Clements’ 2019 documentary about lesbian cultural spaces across America, All We’ve Got. The screening was followed by a roundtable with four queer and f...
]]>We seized the opportunity of his presence in Europe on a research project to invite him in early April 2023 to the Université de Picardie Jules Verne in Amiens, where we interviewed him about his work.
Nelson’s book, Progressive Traditions: Identity in Cherokee Literature and Culture, published in 2014 by the University of Oklahoma Press, sought to dismantle the assimilated/traditional dichotomy in American Indian literary criticism. More recently, he has been coproducer and narrator of the PBS documentary Searching for Sequoyah (directed by James Fortier and coproduced by Native author LeAnne Howe), about the eponymous figure who created the C...
]]>Though popular in the United States, where he was showcased in numerous exhibitions, including retrospectives of his work organized by the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco in 2001, the Palm Springs Museum in 2009, or the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento in 2020-2021, Wayne Thiebaud has remained largely overlooked in Europe, except for those who attended Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972, visited the Morandi Museum in Bologna in 2011 and or saw the first-ever European retrospective of his work in the Netherlands at the V...
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